eat well for less?

RHemmings

The BBC had a television programme 'Eat Well for Less'. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0377vn8/Eat_Well_for_Less/

I was disappointed with it. I thought that they had a surprisingly few tricks up their sleeves in terms of eating well for less, and mainly concentrated on finding 'basics' food products that matched normal products in taste tests. They found, e.g. that some basics foods were bland, but didn't seem to think of jazzing some of these ups with added spice, or creative use in cooking. And they had very little on cooking things from scratch.

joedenise

I was also really disappointed with the programme. I thought it was going to be showing people how to "eat better for less" - and it certainly wasn't that at all!

This was another of those BBC programmes where they could have done so much but actually didn't do anything to help anyone. Such a pity to have wasted the time and money making the programme and wasting the viewers time as well watching it.

Denise

siegemode

fairtrade wrote: »

In the blind taste test the cheapest supermarket sauce came second to the expensive homemade version. So for convenience and cost saving you would probably buy that.
It can often be the case that something homemade, especially if it is one-off, is much less cost effective than a ready made version.

This may be true but sometimes it is more important to know and understand the ingredients and go for a healthy hm option which has the nutritional benefits of fresh ingredients. Cheapest is not the only important factor. We can all eat cheap, but eating healthy should be the important factor. The programme was titled Eat Well For Less and I for one expected a focus on healthy and low cost as opposed to cheap or tastes better.

miss_scrooge

The titles misleading surprised it was about convenince foods never learnt anything new still an interesting to watch though.

fairtrade

siegemode wrote: »

sometimes it is more important to know and understand the ingredients and go for a healthy hm option

I don't disagree with the sentiment. What I really meant was if it not subtantially or nutrionally different then there is nothing wrong with the cheap option.
I always ask myself, can I make it and if I do make it are there any benefits in doing so? One example would be muesli - oats, malt and dried fruit. It is cheaper for me to make it myself than buy pre-prepared and nutrionally it is just as good.

fuddle

Just caught up on this this afternoon.

It was entertainment, and I use the word loosely, only for me. I was very disappointed. Why do we have to have programes that are competition based and edited around gimicky ideas? I learned nothing about preparing anything I saw on there, cemented what I already did know and taste tests like that? Pointless as everyone's palette is different - if you're used to Lidl tomato sauce that is going to be the yummy one, no?

The Cost Of Living Season was something I was very excited for, thought I may be educated but no, it's a whole host of programmes surrounding prejudice and stereotypes, in my opinion anyway.

The B.eeb could have done so much better.

siegemode

fairtrade wrote: »

I don't disagree with the sentiment. What I really meant was if it not subtantially or nutrionally different then there is nothing wrong with the cheap option.
I always ask myself, can I make it and if I do make it are there any benefits in doing so? One example would be muesli - oats, malt and dried fruit. It is cheaper for me to make it myself than buy pre-prepared and nutrionally it is just as good.

Sorry if I came across moody, I had just watched this and the other programme and was feeling a little wound up !

fuddle wrote: »

Just caught up on this this afternoon.

It was entertainment, and I use the word loosely, only for me. I was very disappointed. Why do we have to have programes that are competition based and edited around gimicky ideas? I learned nothing about preparing anything I saw on there, cemented what I already did know and taste tests like that? Pointless as everyone's palette is different - if you're used to Lidl tomato sauce that is going to be the yummy one, no?

The Cost Of Living Season was something I was very excited for, thought I may be educated but no, it's a whole host of programmes surrounding prejudice and stereotypes, in my opinion anyway.

The B.eeb could have done so much better.

Totally agree

5555tt

Interesting

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I though it was rubbish. None of them could stick to the individual budget. Sticking to the budget for a lot of people was much easier because they had a bigger lump sum and therefore more buying power.

Also, once they stocked up thir cupboards for them, which was nice, they will run out of that food before long and be back in their original position....

The chickens were a good idea though, they'll last a lot longer than 4 pints of milk.

I was thinking, why don't you tell them to go tot he library, use the internet, and find a girl called Jacks blog

Oops, I'm on the wrong programme